Fritzl finally shows his face as Elisabeth tells how he forced her to re-enact porn films in dungeonBy Alan Hall (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/search.html?s=y&authornamef=Alan+Hall)

Elisabeth Fritzl was today telling jurors in excruciating detail how she endured 24 years as the 'sex toy' of her sex-obsessed father in the Austrian incest case.

On day two of Josef Fritzl's trial, she was to reveal by video link how he would come to the cellar armed with boxes of pornographic videotapes and make her re-enact the scenes in them.

It was also revealed that Fritzl has access to psychological support throughout the trial to help him cope with the ordeal - and ensure he does not commit suicide.

The 73-year-old engineer was first placed on suicide watch soon after his arrest.

The focus has now switched from Fritzl - who caged his daughter when she was just 18 - to the grown woman who was finally freed in April last year.

Elisabeth was to tell her account of events - even though she was not actually present in the courtroom.

It was a precondition of her testifying against her father that she would never have to see him again.

Consequently, she gave 13 hours of videotaped evidence to authorities last year detailing her ordeal which began in August 1984 when her father drugged her and walled her up in the dungeon he carved out below the family home in Amstetten, Austria.

Her father appeared in court today, at first hiding his face with a blue binder - but then dropping the shield as the court session got under way.

He's what, 73? That's a possible 20 years he could spend on Earth hopefully getting beaten and tortured in jail until his death. People like this show you just how ugly the world can be sometimes. My prayers go out to that woman. :(